Hermana Heywood Serving in Mexico City East: Valle

Dear fam!

Well sounds like everyone is doing good and happy! Shout out to Maddie for giving her farewell talk... hopefully I will see her in a couple weeks. I have some stuff for her when I see her! but okay I shall answer your questions now...

Yes I am not in Carrera anymore... its weird but I am excited... I am in Las Americas... my area is called Valle and it is SOOO NICE!! It is one of the best and richest wards in all of the mission and I feel like I am in the states.,.. so I am not sure how I feel about that. I kinda miss the ghetto! But my comp is Hna Saylor from Wyoming she is the one of the funniest people and loves to talk so I am sure we will get along just great.

I knew I was getting transferred on Wednesday because hna Mortenson got a call that night and they told her she would be training an hna that is waiting for her visa to go to Texas so luckily I was emotionally prepared and I still cried to leave but not as much and I was happy I had time to say good bye to everyone!

Dana is somewhere in the area shaded in Red (Ecatepec)

The graffiti here is actually cool and not just te amo jeni haha always in Carrera

Me and Hna Saylor

Hey Maddie you see that hill... that is where you are going to be... we are gonna be SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our house... we live behind the estetica

Valle is cool though the hnas always have a ton of success here its like a gold mine because even though the people aren't as humble here... the ward is AWESOME and they help like crazy! They said people are always asking when they can come with the missionaries on citas. So that will be fun! I was sad to leave but I think it will be good for me to have a change and to get to know the people out here. I am in Ecatepec again... Izcalli is in my zone and we get to do divisiones with them so I am excited to go and see the people! But yeah the taxi today cost $120 pèsos... but luckily another elder from my zone had transfers so we went to together and split it 50/50! It is strange to be out here in the middle of nowhere again! If you are wondering where I am ... I am almost to Pachuca... like almost to the pyramids. All I ever hear about this area is that it is awesome but not as crazy as the city! I am excited to see what kind of crazy fun I can find here and to help the members and the ward to keep on keep on working hard en la obra misional!

Now speaking of my week in Carrera, we finally had time and someone to go with us to the top of the hill where is is super ghetto and not safe and it was so so so fun! We found a ton of people up there that hna Mortenson can teach and this one lady we found. We helped her take her bags from the mercado up the hill so she invited us into her house gave us food and just wanted a friend I think... haha she wanted to show us her chickens her rabbit... her roosters... haha we were like wow que bonita... and then her poor 95 year old mother that was blind was just lying on her bed with no pants on and we were like ok cool this is different and her mom was just eating a bag of cheetos... so yeah good old mexico stuff. Everyone was sad I was leaving but I told them all we will be back in DEC and they all want to meet everyone and feed us so yeah pàrty in Carrera in DEC!

The rain this week!

Goodbye Iker

Also saddest thing ever... I really didn't tell anyone I was leaving until Sunday but I think bishop knew because they sang God be With You Till We Meet Again... and then I saw hna Magda who was leading the music crying and then I started crying and then hna Mortenson who was playing the piano was crying and we were all kinda a mess hahaha but its all good! Sorry not mucho to say but i will email next week with lots of pics and more info about my new area! love you all lots